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From today's featured article Space Invaders is a 1978 arcade video game developed and released by Taito in Japan and distributed by Midway Manufacturing overseas. The goal is to defeat wave after wave of descending aliens with a horizontally moving laser. Designer Tomohiro Nishikado drew inspiration from North American games like Breakout (1976) and Gun Fight (1975). Space Invaders was an immediate commercial success; by 1982, it had grossed $3.8 billion (equivalent to about $13 billion in 2022), and it remains one of the highest-grossing arcade games of all time. Considered one of the most influential video games ever, it ushered in the golden age of arcade video games. It was an inspiration for numerous game designers across different genres, and has been ported and re-released in various forms. The 1980 version for the Atari Video Computer System (VCS), which quadrupled VCS sales, became the first killer app for video game consoles. The game's pixelated enemy alien has become a pop culture icon. (Full article...)

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Ongoing:  Recent deaths&#58;   On this day January 26: Australia Day (1788); Republic Day in India (1950)  The dome over the Hale Telescope  <ul><li>Manuel do Cenáculo ( d. 1814)</li><li>Seán MacBride  ( b. 1904)</li><li>Wayne Gretzky   ( b. 1961)</li><li>Lindy Delapenha  ( d. 2017)</li></ul>
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 * 1808 – William Bligh, the governor of New South Wales, was deposed by the New South Wales Corps in the only military coup in Australian history.
 * 1949 – The Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory (pictured) in California, the largest aperture optical telescope in the world for 28 years, saw first light.
 * 1974 – Turkish Airlines Flight 301 crashed while taking off from İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport, killing 67 people.
 * 2009 – Rioting broke out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that led to the deposal of President Marc Ravalomanana.

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